translations of Нос & Мертвые души

[Olga Meerson]

I like the Pevear and Volokhonsky Gogol, and teach out of it. Also useful
is Bob Maguire's translation of DS, although a little too obviously
scholarly: he tries to render the untranslatable through paraphrase
sometimes, conveying meanings the way a commentary would, without hitting
the same stylistic register -- a problem somewhat similar to Nabokov's
Onegin.
 But Maguire was the best specialist on Gogol I have ever met, or taken
classes with.


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>wrote:

> For Мертвые души - the recent translation by Donald Rayfield.  This is now
> published by NYRB Classics.  The original edition of this tr., published in
> the UK by the Garnett Press, includes reproductions (almost full size) of
> all the illustrations Chagall once did for a French tr.
>
> All the best,
>
> Robert
>
>
> On 31 Oct 2013, at 00:54, "Thomas F. Keenan" <tkeenan at PRINCETON.EDU>
> wrote:
>
> > Greetings list,
> >
> > I'm in the market for excellent English translations of Нос & Мертвые
> души. Any recommendations?
> >
> > Thomas.
> >
> > Thomas Keenan
> > Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Librarian
> > Princeton University Library
> > One Washington Road, Princeton New Jersey 08544-2098
> > (tel.) 609-258-3592 (fax.) 609-258-6950
> > tkeenan at princeton.edu
> >
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